Doing bugs together
A while ago the European Nordic countries established a cooperation between LoCo teams, and that cooperation lead to among other things a Nordic blog planet.
The cooperation has now moved another step forward, as we have established a team between us with focus on packaging, development and bug triaging.
It has been hard for all the Nordic LoCo teams indiviually to maintain a stable dev-team, but by combining forces we actually get a pretty strong and interesting team. We are getting ready for Global BugJam!
The initative came from Canonical virtualization specialist Soren Hansen, who also happens to be from the Danish team, and the idea were forwared to the newly created Ubuntu Nordic mailinglist.
Here it received positive feedback, and the mailinglist subscribers brought back the idea to their local community team.
And thus #ubuntu-nordic-dev were born 
Of course we do not stop here. To really becoming successful there are still some things we need to do:
- Gather information and materials on a wiki page
- Structurate some bug triage learning sessions
- Creating more ways for people to join the team
- And very important: Getting ready to participate in the Global Bugjam!
The Danish Team has already planned their first ever BugJam weekend, and has even planned a physical event Saturday the 21th in Aarhus, where we will work with bugs.
Getting the rest of the Nordic LoCo teams with us should definitely increase the number of attendees.
I’m really looking forward to this, and I hope it will be a great success! If you have any suggestions on how to further improve this new dev-team, please do not hesitate to post it
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:20 am
Hey, all this sound a lot more impressive the way you write about it
Still, for me this is exactly the right time to have access to a channel like #ubuntu-nordic-dev. Being new to development work a somewhat smaller and more local channel is definitely less intimidating.
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February 2nd, 2009 at 6:25 pm
I wouldn’t go so far to call it impressive, but i do feel it is noteworthy, that we have established such a good cooperation between our countries, and taking advantage of the skill each of us possess in order to create active loco teams.
I actually think other LoCo teams could benefit a lot from doing something similar with other loco teams that they resemble. There are a lot of teams who have 5-10 pretty active members, but perhaps lack the skills of a certain area. A neighbour team might have some people with exactly those skills, so a cooperation between these two teams would remove some hurdles for the teams.
There are a lot of ways to resolve that issue, like a “skills database” for instance, but while a skills database resolves one hurdle for the loco team, a cooperation among similar loco teams would have a much wider effect on the loco team.
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